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Re: [L-OT] Outlook Express (Remove attachment)

2002-11-20 by Hendrik Jan Veenstra

Thoughts from the mind of ObliviƤn | Bacteria AS, 20-11-2002:

>Does anyone know how to remove attachments from e-mails in Outlook Express?
>My mailbox get's incredibly large 'cause I'm not able to remove attachments
>from mails. The only solution I find is to delete the whole message, but
>then again I'd like to keep all in/outgoing messages for future references.
>Earlier I used Eudora and then it was no problem since it saved all
>attachments in a separate folder.
>
>With Outlook this isn't a problem since you have an option to remove any
>attachments...

Since attachments are nothing but plain files, I would guess that 
Outlook, just like Eudora, stores the attachments in some dedicated 
folder.  So: do a "find" for some attachment you have, and see where 
it's stored.  Then delete the entire folder if you want...

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Hendrik Jan Veenstra  <h@...>
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